Largely conventional, all action and little substance

Rating: 7/10 (20 July 2013)

I just saw this film in IMAX 3D and was glad to have done so. That is not to say that the film is amazing, because it is in fact riddled with flaws. The dialogue is wooden at best, and cheesy on more than one occasion. The relationships between the main characters were not developed well, and apart from the jaegar/kaiju fight scenes and the adventures of the mad scientist in Hong Kong, there wasn't much else that made the film stand out.
However, the fight scenes were great, and it's worthy of being a summer blockbuster when compared to some of the other disasters that I've seen recently in theatres. The IMAX 3D experience complimented this aspect of the film.
Overall, it deserves an 8/10 for the cinematography alone, but drops to a 7/10 because of the less-than-impressive dialogue and acting.